Kolkata: It promises to be a double bonanza for fliers in Kolkata. Soon after they get to use the swanky new terminal that is nearing completion, flights are expected to get cheaper with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) switching over from a land-based navigation system to a satellite-based one. Kolkata is one of the fifteen locations in the country where an Indian Reference Station (INRES) has been set up to collect measurement data and broadcast messages from all GPS and GEO satellites to the Indian Master Control Centre (INMCC) in Bengaluru.
"Once Gagan - a project undertaken by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in association with AAI - becomes operational, it will free the airspace and flying will become cheaper," said Dr B P Sharma, director, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata.
13/05/12 Jayanta Gupta/Times of India
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